On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:26:17 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 11 February 2005 14:54, Dave Misevich wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:55:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 February 2005 12:53, Robin Elvin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have tried the current version of Mplayer on both Windows and
> > > > Linux
> > > and it plays nuv files fine.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds like you have a bad installation.
> > >
> > > No, it sounds like _you_ have a PVR-x50, M-179, pcHDTVx000, Air2PC
> > > or
> > > DVB card.  If you do, then your recordings are NOT NuppelVideo, even
> > > though they have a ".nuv" extension; that's just for Myth's
> > > convenience; the files are really standard MPEG-2.
> > >
> > > For anyone using software encoding, or transcoding to Myth's MPEG-4
> > > or
> > > RTjpeg format, there is no external player software that can
> > > reliably
> > > play back Myth's Nuppel-container .nuv files.  The MPlayer patch has
> > > not been maintained since version 0.90-pre-something-or-other.
> > >
> > > -JAC
> > >
> >
> > I've got pvr-250's and it used to be I couldn't play transcoded shows
> > with mplayer from my linux desktop machine. A couple of weeks ago I
> > compiled the cvs version of mplayer and now the transcodes shows play
> > nicely.
> 
> Sure you're still transcoding?  Nothing in any of the MPlayer mailing
> list archives or CVS logs indicate that Myth .nuv support was
> added/fixed.
> 
> -JAC
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I'm sure the files are transcoded. I only do it when I cut commercials
and want to shrink the file to save space. ~800mb 1/2 hour shows get
their commercials cut and then transcode down to around 185mb. It
turns out the CVS version is not playing them though. CVS installed to
/usr/local/bin/mplayer, while the other version I had is installed at
/usr/bin/mplayer. I fire up these tv shows from konqueror, which was
still pointed at /usr/bin/mplayer.

What confuses me is that I'm sure /usr/bin/mplayer couldn't play them,
that's why I decided to try CVS. After compiling and installing CVS,
they played fine and I thought konqueror was using CVS. Maybe I lost
track of what I was doing and I'm spouting crap. I guess the only
thing I can say for sure is that the version at /usr/bin/mplayer can
play the transcoded files.

Below is the output (trimmed) of the two version run on a transcoded
file from the command line. /usr/local/bin/mplayer won't play them,
but /usr/bin/mplayer can.

Dave

$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer /myth/tv/2231_20041115190000_20041115193000.nuv
MPlayer dev-CVS-050122-00:00-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Playing /myth/tv/2231_20041115190000_20041115193000.nuv.
TiVo file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
ty:WARNING - Would have blown my audio buffer
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
Video: Cannot read properties.
No stream found.
Exiting... (End of file)


$ /usr/bin/mplayer /myth/tv/2231_20041115190000_20041115193000.nuv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
Playing /myth/tv/2231_20041115190000_20041115193000.nuv.
NuppelVideo file format detected.
Detected MythTV stream, reading extended format information
FOURCC: XVID
channels=2 bitspersample=16 samplerate=48000 audio_compression_ratio=11
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
...
And the file plays fine
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